Iraqis are expected to survive on $200 a month in a country that since the occupation has seen a 60% increase in the unemployment, where food prices have tripled, where 90% of working women have lost their jobs, where 2.4 million internal refugees have been displaced and living in squalor on the outskirts of Baghdad and where the Iraqi government is coaxing countries like Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to close their borders on its citizens rather than provide any more money in humanitarian aid.

In other words, since the occupation, the quality of life in Iraq has declined to levels that had not been seen in more than a century. Meanwhile, US Military contractors have not missed a beat in squandering the millions they were given to work on the reconstruction of Iraq :

Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say.

The audit released recently by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion. It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick up more of the cost of reconstruction.

Now ponder that one for a moment. Some members of Congress want the Iraqis to pick up the bill for the US occupation of their country ...

Take your time ...

Yes, you read that right : Some people in the US government think it's the Iraqis responsibility to reconstruct their country after we bombed it to pieces.

And ... get this ... since the US passed a law exempting military contractors from criminal liability pre-2007, most contractors will walk scott free from any legal action brought against them.

In the video Bill Mahr interview Robert Greenwald, director of Iraq For Sale; a documentary that explores "what happens when corporations go to war". In the interviewhe gives us a glimpse at the incentives companies like Blackwater and Halliburton have for extending this war for, as John McCain has said, 100 years or more.